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Stretch Your Brain, continued

4. Give Directions to Your Home

   The goal of this exercise is to provide written step-by-step directions to finding your home. These directions should enable someone who has never visited your part of the world to easily find where you live.

5. Grammar and Taxonomy

   Create a grammar and taxonomy for a magical wand in a world in which magic is real. What is magic, and how does it work? Relate to the grammar and taxonomy.

6. Circling

   Use the twelve-point checklist in the section “Circling the Subject” to describe an animal you have seen in person, on television, or read about in the news in the past week. Make sure to provide conceptual, temporal, and descriptive views of the animal.

7. What Is a Telephone?

   You are talking to a Martian fresh off the rocket from Mars. Mars is an agrarian society without machinery. Martians communicate using telepathy over the vast distances of the Martian tundra. Martians do possess the vestigial physiologic remnants of speaking apparatus such as vocal chords, although most Martians are pretty rusty when it comes to using them.

   Explain to your friendly Martian the purpose of a telephone, how they work, the best place to buy a cell phone, and how to use one.

8. Fwiw, an email!

   Write an email that uses as much email vernacular as possible but is still very clear.

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